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unscrupulous
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dishonest
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sterling
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bright
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Exhibitionist
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show-off
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frock
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dress
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provocative
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stimulating
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dough
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money
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galoshes
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rain shoes
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tiff
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small arguement
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unanimous
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In disguise
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hound's-tooth
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checked pattern
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suave
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smoothily polite
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infintely
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endlessly adverb
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Bourgeois
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Smug, conventional, materialistic
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inexorable
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unrelenting, unyielding, unchangeable
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rile
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to agitate someone
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hemorrhage
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massive, heavy bleeding
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jazzy
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pertaining to jazz
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inured
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toughened by experience
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appeal
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if something is attractive
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rostrum
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platform for speech-making; pulpit
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ostentatious
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tries to impress people
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sophisticated
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adultlike
how Sally says sophisticated stuff
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hysterical
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behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess
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Falsetto
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a high singing male voice
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Apathy
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lack of interest or enthusiasm
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homely
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plain or unattractive in appearance
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chateau
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an impressive country house (or castle) in France
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antihero
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a protagonist who characteristics are the opposite of traditional heroism
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Lavish
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immoderate in giving or bestowing; unstinting; characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion
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spontaneous
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happening or arising without apparent external cause
Holden's speeches in his oral expression calss
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Adapt
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to adjust oneself to different conditions
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hemorrhages
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loss of something with great amount
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Mr. Spencer
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Holden's history teacher at pencey; holden goes to say good bye to him; tells holden that lifes a game and you have to play by the rules; failed holden because he didn't apply himself
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chiffonier
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tall chest of drawers, often with mirror on top
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bob robinson
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Bob Robinson has an inferiority complex, according to Holden, but a girl he went on a date with thinks he is conceited because he tells her that he is captain of the debate team.
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porous
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something that permits the passage of substance through pores
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Inferiority complex
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a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated
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conceited
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having an overly high opinion of oneself or one's appearance
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linoleum
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a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
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Vernacular
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expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works
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conscientious
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controlled by or done according to conscience, meticulous
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Louse
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singular of lice, or a nasty person (noun)
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hounds-tooth
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pattern of jagged or broken checks as on fabric
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Putrid
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-adjective 1.in a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten. 2.of, pertaining to, or attended by putrefaction. 3.having the odor of decaying flesh. 4.thoroughly corrupt, depraved, or evil. 5.of very low quality; rotten.
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Pedagogical
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(adj) - describing a teacher or person who is pedantic, dogmatic, and formal.
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ostracize
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verb
to exclude from a group by common consent
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WHO ARE H FAV WRITERS
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DB AND RING LARDNER
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Holden
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he has had a "lousy childhood" and his parents are "touchy as hell"
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highballs
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alcoholic drink (1 oz whiskey / 2 oz ginger ale)
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Exhibitonist
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One who likes to show off and get attention
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The Lunts
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the show that sally and Holden go to see and the other guy says they sound like "angels", which Holden thinks is really phony. Holden thinks that they're too good.
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According to Holden, he knew he was happy when he was
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Holding hands with Jane
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Where does Holden take Pheobe after the fight?
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To the zoo, then the park.
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AT ELKTON HILLS, WHO DID THE THING WITH THE SUITCASES?
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DICK SLAGLE, HE USED TO WORD BEORGOIS.
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incognito
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disguised
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blase
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unconcerned
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gory
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bloody
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grippe
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flu
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crocked
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drunk
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matinee
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afternoon show
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harrowing
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extremely disturbing
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Taurus
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zodiac sign?
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meretricious
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falsely attractive
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bleeds excessively
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hemorrhages
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pedagogue
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teacher, schoolteacher
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sadistic
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extreme cruelty.
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Qualms
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Feelings of doubt
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aggravate
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exasperate or irritate
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pacifist (n)
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peace lover
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nonchalant
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Cool and confident, unconcerned
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ostracized
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excluded from a group
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Boisterous
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noisy, energetic, or cheerful
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What was Holden's favorite sport?
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baseball
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exhaust
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to use up, to drain
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Sacrilegious
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Somebody who goes against religion
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immaterial
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of no essential consequence; unimportant
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Dissuasion
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act of discouragaging from an action
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disgresses (v)
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to stray from main subject
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parlor
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a room where visitors are entertained
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cursory
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performed with haste and scant attention to detail
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Inane
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Having little sense or importance; silly, ridiculous, stupid
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putrid (adj.)
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decomposed and foul-smelling, rotten; morally corrupt.
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crude
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vulgar or offensive (hurting someone's feelings)
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Stradlater
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Holden's roommate; thinks he is the coolest thing ever; tries to take advantage of Jane; gets into a fight with holden which is the last straw for holden before he leaves pencey
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scraggy
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having a sharply uneven surface or outline
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digress
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to wander from main topic or argument
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Red hunting hat
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What does Holden give Phoebe?
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ironical
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Meaning the opposite of what is expressed
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foils
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a fencing sword having a circular, thin, flexible guard with a four sided blade with a button on the tip to prevent injury
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sacrilegious (N)
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violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred
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intoxicating
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extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
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Imagery
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the ability to form mental images of things or events.
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Innumerable
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too many to be counted Sentence: The amount of Jews who were killed in the Holocaust were innumerable.
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Flashback
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an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
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What is the thing about carousels?
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play same songs.
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Stimulate
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to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite
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Irony
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the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
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Egyptions
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what was studied from Nov. 4 - Dec. 2 in history at Pencey but Holden doesn't know anything about them. Also, in the museum of history the two boys ask Holden to bring them to the mummies.
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After Maurice hits Holden in the crotch, what does Holden do?
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He repeatedly insults Maurice, resulting in further physical punishment.
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what happen when holden arrived to Mr. Antolini's house
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he begins to feel weak
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Who did Holden call When he leaves Phoebe's room in chapter 23?
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He call his ex english teacher Mr. Antolini.
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compulsory
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mandatory
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lagoon
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pond
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Reciprocal
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mutual
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sadist
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torturer
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lavishl
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luxurious
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halitosis
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bad breath
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filthy
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disgustingly dirty
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Intimately
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Privately, personally
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Dilettante
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A superficial amateur.
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screech
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high pitch sound
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Furlough
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a leave of absence
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Whooton
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a school Holden attended
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Fitzgerald
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a former girlfriend of Stradlater
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hoarse
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(voice) sounding rough and harsh
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sarcastic
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bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting
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Fascinated
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Held the attention of; captivated
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phonies
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society's flaws according to Holden
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Rave
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to speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently; to roar; rage
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rake
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an immoral or dissolute man
Monsieur Blanchard is a rake
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cynical
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doubtful of the sincerity of others' motives; skeptical
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Clavichord
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keyboard used in 15th-19th century and produces a soft sound
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Mr. Haas
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A phony, headmaster fo Elkton Hills
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three climaxes
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ch.7- fight w/ Stradlater forces Holden to leave Pencey
ch. 14- fight w/ Maurice forces Holden to leave the hotel
ch.21- fight w/ Phoebe forces Holden to leave home
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Holden will only have sex with someone he loved. True or False.
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True
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true or false Phoebe is the oldest ?
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False
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Recluse
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A person who withdraws from the world in order to live alone (in seclusion).
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digression
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turning aside from the main subject in speaking or writing
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atheism
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the belief that there is no god, n
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atheist
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one who does not believe there are gods or a God
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WHO WROTE THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE.
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THOMAS HARDY
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Daiquiri
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a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice
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Mr. Antolini
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only person to help Caste's body after Caste committed suicide
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James Castle
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a student at Elkton Hills, he jumps to his death (due to an incient of teasing).
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Jane Gallagher
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A girl with whom Holden spent a lot of time one summer, when their families stayed in neighboring summer houses in Maine.
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raining on Allie's grave
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sad that he can't go anywhere and the living can
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"My brother D.B.'s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. I'm the only really dumb one."
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Holden in chapter 10. Again this shows his lack of self confidence and feeling that he's a failure to his family.
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Scrawny
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skinny
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obstinacy
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stubbornness
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random
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unexpected
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blase'
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dull;boring
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crocked
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drunkadjective
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clinch
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to grasp
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banister
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a handrail
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stenographer
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type of secretary
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rubberneck
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a gawking onlooker
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terrific
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very great or intense
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appreciate
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to increase in value
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viselike
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clamped as in a vise
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bang
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amusement and tickles his fancy
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scrupulous
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characterized by extreme care and great effort
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necking
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affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
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D.B.
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Holden's older brother; good writer; live in Hollywood; Holden calls him a prostitute (wastes his talent writing movie scripts)
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blasé
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indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
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Economizing
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as by avoiding waste or reducing expenditures
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dissimulation
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concealment meant to give a false appearance, disguise
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hoolden is talkintg about this person when he says "as soon as he opened the doors, he's start screaming at me...but i'd plug him anyway. six shots right in his fait, hairy belly."
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maurice
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Newsreel
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A short film and commentary about current events
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Carrousel
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The shows that Holden has accepted himself into the "adult world' by not going on it. He has accepted that he is grown up and when all the kids are reaching for the "gold ring, if they fall, they fall" you just have to let them "fall" out of childhood, which goes back to the cliff catcher in the rye scene, Holden no longer feels the responsibility of saving kids from falling into adulthood, because he knows that they are going to fall no matter what. Phoebe rides it and asks holden if he wants to.
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locomotive
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a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
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After Holden fights Stradlater, what does he think about?
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Joining a monastery
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Edgar Marsalla
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The guy who farted really loudly during Ossenburger's speech.
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Agnostic
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A person who believes it is impossible to know whether or not there is a god
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Fiend
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One who is completely absorbed in or obsessed with a given job or pastime
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betray
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to back stab or go against someones back
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cynicism
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n. Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
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pacifist
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a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
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5, 15
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___ dollars for a throw, ___ dollars for a whole night
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Ch.10
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Holden dances with a few girls in the lavender room and keeps remarking how stupid they are. Nothing overly significant happens.
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Holden's neighbor, 18 years old, has a lot of acne, bad teeth and bad personality.
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Who is Ackley?
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Saturday Night Meals at Pencey
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Steak; parents visited the next day and would ask what they had for dinner
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HOW MUCH HAS HOLDEN GROWN AND WHAT DID HE ALMOST CATCH
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6.5 INCHES AND TB
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What does Phoebe do that makes Holden cry?
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Phoebe gives him all of her Christmas money so that Holden is able to reamin living on the streets for a little while longer.
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muffler
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scarf
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raspy
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grating
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grand
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wonderful; impressive
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bourgeoise
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middle class
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canasta
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card game
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Holden Caulfield
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main character
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cockeyed
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cross eyed; foolish
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outlandish
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adj bizarre, absurd
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Inferiority
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Strong feelings of inadequacy
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motif (n)
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a recurring subject
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chisel
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to rip off or swindle
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aristocratic
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of an upper class; distinguished
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James Caslet killed him self?
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True
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psychic
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sensitive to nonphysical or supernatural forces
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Worksheet
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Know Holden's relationship with each of the characters above (if one exists)
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verification
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additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
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Plot
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Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
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pervert
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mental error or false judgement "sexual"
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no
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did the author like the media attention?
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Monotonous
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sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone; tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
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Pugnacious
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Quarrelsome; tending to fight or argue a lot.
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ironic
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Meaning the opposite of what is expected
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Qualm
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(n.) a pang of conscience, uneasiness, misgiving, or doubt; a feeling of faintness or nausea
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contempt
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open disrespect for a person or thing
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Dick Slagle
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Holden's roommate at Elkton Hills; had crappy suitcases; burgeois
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degression
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a passage or speech that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing
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Foil
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to prevent (a person) from attaining a desired end: keep from acheiving a goal
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Anne Louise Sherman
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one of Holden's ex-girlfriends, phony, holden necked with her, broke his rules with her
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Robert Ackley
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Holden's dormmate; bad skin and teeth; no one likes him
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Who is Phoebe palying as in her play
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Benedict Arnold
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Jim Steele
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one of Holden's alias's; used it while at the Lavender Room
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Prostitute
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to use a skill or ability in a way that is considered unworthy, usually for financial or personal gain
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Faith Cavendish
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a girl Holden when he went to New York that Eddie Birsell told him about at a party. She's a prostitute but she won't hang out with him because she wants to sleep but she offers for the next day and Holden turns her down.
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According to Holden, what is "the best thing" about the Museum of Natural History?
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"That everything always stayed right where it was"
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how does it portray the coming of age?
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He (Holden) has to learn how to grow up after he leaves school. At the end instead of running away he stays with his family in New York, because throughout the story he grew up. He has to learn that everything wont always go his way. (Phoebe)- his sister. He learns how to make better decisions in his life.
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anxious
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worried; concerned
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putrid-adj
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rotten and disgusting
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panache (n.)
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flair; style
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falsetto (adj., noun)
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high voice
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anomaly
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n a deviation, irregular, abnormal
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slobber
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saliva spilling from the mouth
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After his fight with Stradlater, Holden claims that he is a/an ________.
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pacifist
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Corridor
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passage way connecting parts of buildings or a narrow strip
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mr. vinson
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mean teacher Oral Expression who failed students for digression
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Exacerbate
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To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate.
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Bernice, Marty, Laverne
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Three thirtyish tourists from Seattle
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snub
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to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
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Horwitz
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Touchy cabdriver that drives Holden to Ernie's
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reprimand
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to scold, criticize, severe or formal rebuke
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Mal Brossard
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Wrestler that goes into town with Holden and Ackley
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Radio City
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After the theatre show, Sally and Holden go where? phoniness
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Screwball
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an offensive term for someone who is behaving in an unconventional, irrational, or strange way
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Cliques
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A small and exclusive party or set, a narrow coterie or circle: a term of reproach or contempt, applied generally to such as are considered to associate for unworthy or selfish ends, or to small and select bodies who arrogate supreme authority in matters of social status, literature
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tantalize
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verb, to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach
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pyschic
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has to do with the human soul or mind
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Jane
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Holden hung out with her as a kid, and she had a bad childhood, Holden thinks she is interesting and sincere
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Who is Mr. Antolini to Holden
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his english teacher in Elkton Hills
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"I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to someone I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
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Holden in chapter 12. Here Holden underscores his entire philosophy of life. He attempts not to keep himself alive, but to keep alive the innocence of those around him. He wants them to think he really is glad to meet them in order to preserve their innocence.
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After Holden checks into his room at the Edmont Hotel, what does he see out of his window?
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A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
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gladstones
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suitcases
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groping
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reaching blindly
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Sunny
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a prostitute
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Psychic (adj.)
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Sensitive; intuitive;
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transgression
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sin, wrong doing, breech
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Precocious
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Talented beyond one's age.
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commendation
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noun, recognition of achievement
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insinuate
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to suggest or imply
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Alienation
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how Holden is being ostracized
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rubbernecks
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Inquisitive people; those curious about other people's affairs.
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The time
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Holden's description for having sex
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humane
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having what everyone considers the best qualities of mankind
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McBurney School
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a real school in N.Y.
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posture
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characteristic way of bearing one's body, to behave in a certain way in order to impress others
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Ossenburger Memorial Wing
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Where Holden lives at Pencey
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Nonchalance
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Cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness
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brassy
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resembling the sound of a brass instrument
the band at the Lavender room
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shiver
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reflex shaking caused by cold or fear or excitement
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disgresses
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to deviate or wander away from the main topic
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Ch.7
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Holden sleeps in Ely's bed. He talks about how his mom never picks the right ice skates. He decides to leave Pencey.
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As Holden predicted, Sally is excited to
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See the Lunts
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autobiography
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a story of a person's life written by that person
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WHERE DID HOLDEN AND PHOEBE GO SHOPPING THE XMAS BEFORE LAST?
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BLOOMINGDALE'S, BOUGHT MOCS
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The Lagoon in Central Park South
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represens transition/ change; Holden wonders what's going on with the ducks and where they are going to go and wonders the same about himself
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How popular was the sport of polo at Pencey Prep
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They play everyday
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why does holden leave mr antolinis house?
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holden left mr antolinis house because the xx teacher was patting his head while holden was sleeping
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WHAT DID H DO AFTER HE PHONED SALLY DRUINK
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HE WENT TO BATHROOM AND COUNTED THE WHITE SQUARES ON THE FLOOR
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rye
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caulfield
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shoot the bull
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gossip
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suffocate
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struggle for breath
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Repetition
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Madman
Old
Goddam
And all
Really did
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harrowing (adj.)
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extremely distressing.
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Assail
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to attack(verbally of physcially)
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enlightening
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to make aware of
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quake
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verb. shake or tremble
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Ostracized:
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Excluded from a group
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Colleen O' Neill
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the author wife
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nelson - a wrestling hold
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half
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hem and haw
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to hesitate or falter
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economizing (V)
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spend less; reduce one's spending
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Pacifist (n.)
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believer in non-violence; for peace
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digresses
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strays temporarily from the main topic
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intimately (Adj)
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privately; personally; very closely; closely personal; deep
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Pencey
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The prep school that holden went too.
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analyst
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someone who is skilled at analyzing data & resolving complex issues
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lilian simmons
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talks to another girl at earny's
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sacrilege
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the violation of something sacred or holy
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hero
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the central character, usually one who possesses noble qualities such as self-sacrifice, courage, wisdom, etc.
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Burlesque
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a variety show characterized by broad comedy, dancing, and striptease
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Mrs. Morrow
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Who does Holden meet on the Train?
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psychoanalyze
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to treat or investigate by means of the human mind
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Richard Kinsella
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One of Holden's classmates in Oral Expression class. He digressed a lot and therefore Holden like him because Holden's favorite part is when people digress. Talked about his uncle and his sickness.
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sophisticated (181)
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(of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive
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edgewise
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with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge
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HOW MUCH OLDER WAS LUCE THAN H
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3 YEARS OLDER
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limited third person narrator
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sees the world througth one charaters eyes and revels only that charaters thoughts
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What did Ackley want to use from Holden
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A pair of scissors
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catcher in the rye as a symbol
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- desire to prevent youths from growing up
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WHERE DID H AND THE A S PLAY TENNIS
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WEST SIDE CLUB AT FOREST HILLS LONG ISLAND.
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phony
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fake
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frequently
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often
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Phoebe
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Holden's sister
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bantam
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tiny; diminutive
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biosterous
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Noisy and rowdy
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shallow body of water
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lagoon
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conceited (Adj)
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excessively proud of oneself
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prose
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written work that isn't poetry
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Psychoanalyst
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a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
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apathetic
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little or no feeling or interest
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this person stepfather walks around half dressed
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Jane
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adaptable
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willing to conform or to adjust
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Sally
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Holden's mom's friend's daughter and they date on and off but he thinks she is a pain but likes her. (shallow)
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halitosiss
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the condition of having stale or foul-smelling breath
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annex
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an addition that extends a main building (noun)
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grief
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holden never had the chance or the help he needed to grieve the loss of his brother and part of the reason he is so emotionality unstable
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Columbia
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Where did Salinger take a short class to launch his literary career?
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surmise
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a thought or idea based on scanty evidence
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composition
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a short piece of writing, especially a school exercise
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D. B. Caulfield
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Holden's older brother. He wrote a volume of short stories that Holden admires very much.
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Holden's History Teacher from Pencey Prep
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Who is Mr. Spencer?
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Once back in New York, the first person Holden tries to invite for a drink is
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A cab driver
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WHO DID H SPEND ALL NIGHT NECKING WITH
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ANNE LOUIS SHERMAN
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Haulden trys to punch stardalter immediatley after?
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stardalter refuses to answer his qeustions about his date
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How do you think Mr.Antoloni felt about Holden?
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I think the English teacher seemed him as a son so of course he was going to love and care about him so genually.
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brio
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n. vigor, liveliness
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Dry
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Definition: Low-key; matter-of-fact; ironic; terse
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muck
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any thick messy substance
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To have scruples
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to have principles
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candid
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impartial and honest in speech
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sauve
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adj. Smooth in social manner
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Arisocratic
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Of an upper class; distinguished
(He kept telling her she had ________ hands.)
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Ward Stradlater
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Holden's roommate; phony friendly; secret slob
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unsanitary (196)
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not sanitary; unhealthy or unhealthful; tending to harbor or spread disease
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stagger
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to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
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Egyptians
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Topic of Holden's essay; Mr. Spencer goes over with him
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Perversion
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-noun 1.the act of perverting. 2.the state of being perverted. 3.a perverted form of something. 4. any of various means of obtaining sexual gratification that are generally regarded as being abnormal. 5. Pathology. a change to what is unnatural or abnormal: a perversion of function or structure.
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Capacity
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a specified function, , the maximum production possible
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conceit
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excessively high opinion of one's own worth or ability
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Holden is beaten up by
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Ward Stradlater and Maurice
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Auditorium
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the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building
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clique
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a narrow exclusive circle or group of person
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Kettle Drums
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Only part Holden likes about the Radio City Christmas show
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Holden stops a little girl in the park to ask her if she knows this person
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phoebe
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Once back in New York, the first person Holden tries to invite for a drink is who?
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A cab driver
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Holden wonders about the fate of which animals in Central Park?
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the ducks in the lagoon
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What are some of Holden's characteristics (physical & social)?
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He was tall (6' 2.5") with gray hair and was very immature.
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